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Tuesday, May 17, 2005

CAFTA Will Make Us Richer

David Ricardo's studies on "comparative advantage" proved almost 200 years ago that free trade benefits each side of the trade equation. We have an opportunity to increase our wealth in America by pushing through CAFTA.

About 80 percent of imports from the CAFTA countries already enter the United States without tariffs under the Caribbean Basin Initiative and the Generalized System of Preferences...The strongest opposition to the agreement comes from the politically influential sugar industry, which has a racket where it donates millions of dollars to politicians in exchange for billions of dollars of taxpayer and consumer money. Ironically, CAFTA was designed with a carve-out for sugar that would allow only a token increase in imports, yet the industry is still dead set on killing the agreement.People need to realize that it is not governments that grow richer from these agreements. It all of us little individuals who can purchase more goods for fewer pieces of paper (money). When that happens we become richer individually. Let us force ingenious Americans to work harder, smarter and more efficiently through competition, and the unemployment rates will fall while income continues to grow.

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About Me

(ettubloge@yahoo.com) Neal is a former RI commercial fisherman (OK just a few trips) who went on to law school in NYC (passed the bar but should have stayed in RI as a fisherman), met a Brooklyn girl and married her (fuhgedaboudit) and is now a family man in NJ (how'd that happen?) who reacqainted himself with the wonders of individual liberty late in life. He devotes his free time to studying politics and economics, watching too much baseball, reading Philip Roth on the side and examining the hypocrisy of the ruling elites.